Name: Tony Brady
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Bio

Historian in Residence Sunshine Coast Council (2023), Topic: 'Bankfoot House and the Impact
of Physiography on Settlement
and Agriculture in the Glass
House Region'.
Historian for Balonne Shire Council 'Honouring their Service' Project, which identified over 700 veterans associated with the Shire and honoured their service on an interactive, electronic memorial.
Winner of a QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for my thesis "The Rural School Experiment: Creating a Queensland Yeoman".
Winner of the Inaugural Biennial RAAF Heritage Fellowship 2014 presented by Chief of Air Force (CAF) at the RAAF Air Power Conference Reception at the National Convention Centre in Canberra, 12 March 2014.
Author of "The Empire has an answer".

Skills and Services Offered

Social Histories
Aviation History
Sports History
Archival Research
Significance Assessments
Heritage Services
Military Histories
School Histories
Institutional Histories
Biographies

Qualifications

Bachelor of Social Science (with Distinction) - QUT
PhD (History of Education) - QUT
Graduate Diploma Education (Secondary) - QUT
Professional Photographer - RAAF
Aircraft Engineer - RAAF

Professional Interests

Queensland History
Australian History
World War 1 and World War 2
Military History
Aviation and Aviation
Sports History
Cricket History
Heritage

Publications and Experience

Brady, Tony James. The Empire Has an Answer: The Empire Air Training Scheme as Reported in the Australian Press 1939-1945. Newport, NSW: Big Sky Publishing, 2019.
Brady, Tony (2012) 'Nambour: the model rural school'. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 22(3), pp. 87-99.
Brady, Tony James (2013) 'The rural school experiment : creating a Queensland yeoman'. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
Brady, Tony (2013) 'John Lane: Utopian Visionary, Agriculturalist, Teacher', History Queensland, no. 8: 26.
Brady, Tony (2016) '"Raw, free, and almost rude": Educating Warder’s children on St Helena Penal Establishment' History of Education Review, vol. 45, no. 1. Publication due June 2016.
Official History of Queensland's first Sheffield Shield win in 1994/95 season.

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